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Good. What is the current update version incidentally? I'm on 1.2.4.12913.

If I already have DCS World and Ka-50 and A-10C at the current update level and I buy FC3, will it just be a matter of installing it, or will I have to install everything again from scratch?

Hopefully there'll be one all-included version of FC3 that I can purchase even if it costs a little more. Don't want to be faffing with different updates.

X-47B Carrier Suitability Testing http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b44_1371822647

Has EPW III been cleared for the TYphoon? http://www.raf.mod.uk/newsweather/index.cfm?storyid=B6825B37-5056-A318-A8AD61B247D8D2F7

Thanks.

So what about the last bit at 1:07?

On gunsight. How is it fixed?

Some real impact in here:

Apparently it wasn't really a kill and the Rafale pilot was amateurish - so says f-16.net.:megalol::megalol:

IR Signature Comparison

Duck and Cover Guy duck before AGM-130 hits

Contentious but an interesting side-by-side.

Heh LOL. If the MiG had got behind him, it wouldn't have taken nearly as many hits. I remember the episode where someone had to push their wingman back over the frontline, nose-to-jet-pipe.

I do not wish to see this in DCS Sky defender: Russia unveils S-300 SAM replacement Vladimir Putin (3-L) visits Obukhov Plant in St. Petersburg, June 19, 2013 Russia has for the first time demonstrated the short-to-mid-range air defense platform ‘Vityaz,’ which will replace older variants of the S-300 system due to be scrapped soon. The army will begin testing the new hardware later this year. The new surface-to-air missile system is made by Russian weapons manufacturer Almaz-Antey. The company demonstrated the system at the Obukhov State Plant in St. Petersburg, home to its branch that manufactures the Vityaz launchers. Vityaz SAM launcher The system boasts advanced all-aspect phased array radar, a new mobile command post and a launcher carrying 12 vertical-launch missiles, which will use a variant of the 9M96 active radar homing missile. Similar missiles are used by the S-400, the newer generation of the S-300, which is currently being deployed in Russia. Vityaz launchers can also fire a short-range missile that was not officially identified, but is likely a variant of the 9M100. “I believe the system will be able to engage target within ranges from 30km to 120km,” Said Aminov, military analyst and editor of the World of Air Defense website told RT. “It’s a system of object air defense with some element of tactical antimissile defense.” Almaz-Antey aims to hand over the system to the Russian Defense Ministry for testing before the year’s end, company head Vladislav Menshikov told Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was inspecting the plant. The company partially based the design of the Vityaz on its work with the South Korean KM-SAM Chun Koong system. Almaz-Antey designed three radar units for the KM-SAM, and is rumored to have also helped design the system’s missiles. The Russian military officially backed the Vityaz project – which has better capabilities than the Korean air defense system – after studying its performance, Almaz-Antey said in 2010. The new Russian system has been in the works since 2007, and is expected to be completed in record time. The ministry earlier said it plans to buy at least 30 Vityaz systems before 2020, if it passes testing, and deployment of the platforms could start as early as next year. KM-SAM Chun Koong Vityaz was designed as a replacement for the S-300PS, an older variant of the S-300 air defense system developed in the early 1980s. The Russian army is expected to decommission about 50 of the S-300PS by 2015 due to old age. The name of the system comes from an archaic Slavic word for a noble warrior. It is shared by the famous aerobatic team known as the Russkie Vityazi (‘Russian Knights’). Russia plans to deploy the Vityaz system alongside other advanced air defense weapons, including the service-ready S-400 and Pantsir-S1, and the future long-range S-500 and short-range Morfei. Moscow aims to create a multi-layered grid to cover Russia’s airspace, defending against threats ranging from drones, to conventional manned aircraft, to cruise and ballistic missiles. S-400 Triumf anti-aicraft missile system Sky defender: Russia unveils S-300 SAM replacement | RT News

I'll be happy to see the other videos with the Rafale getting its arse kicked. I've been told the Rafale wasn't even allowed to use HMCS and LOAL with the MICA IR for the purpose of exercise, otherwise most of the manoeuvring would have all been redundant.:D

Yaw can be still be achieved with a roll and a pitch. The problem is that aircraft still has inertia and has no 'footing'. It isn't a mid-air turret. People made all the same arguments for the F-22 until it had its ass handed to it. The advantage of TV in dogfights is subtle rather than massive and partially offset by the extra weight of the system itself and wing loadings of 85lb/ft2 in some cases for the aircraft that use it. Something like a Rafale that can attain a 110deg A0A and has a wing loading of about 62lb/ft2 can simply do some of the stuff that other aircraft require TV to do anyway and furthermore they can perform climbing turns whilst maintaining SEP far better. They also naturally generate less drag when cruising, particularly at supersonic speeds due to the delta wing sweep.

You know, I'm just going to add a half dozen F/A-18Cs with HARMs and Mavericks and do things as it would be done in reality and see how Mr.Tunguska and co. like that.

Really?

We know that 2 Raptors failed to do it, so maybe 'superbly easy' isn't quite accurate. The spin has inertia to it and can't be fine adjusted at a whim. If we're talking helmet launches, then there's no need to manoeuvre at all in theory. The Su-35 is a great performing aircraft anyway but TV hasn't really demonstrated any ability to deliver in dogfights with regards to fully authority spin and lock matters. You might squeeze off a shot in some cases which might otherwise have fell just short but it's no miracle system. You have some control with it but not full control, it's like a car after the back end has broken loose, you can control it to some extent and it spins faster but you lose the fine control. The idea that it can turn a losing position on its head seems flawed and the Rafale vs F-22 video proved that.

Try releasing just slightly after the pipper has passed the target. I've found they always drop slightly short. Otherwise, use Mk-84s.:D